The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-04-14

VOL. XX--NO. %.
the State Temperance League Of New Y York,
died suddenly in that city on the 7th.
The Bricklayers' Union, the Lathers'
Union, the Carpenters and Joiners' Asso-
citation and the Stonemason's Union, all of
Brooklyn, N. Y, went on strike on the
7th. These Unions have membership Of
over 5000 men, and have quit work hoping
thereby to force the boss trainers to accede
to the demands Of their men.
Resolutions were unanimously adopted
by the Delaware Legislature on the 7th,
extending sympathy to Gladstone and Par
nell in their fight against coercion, and a
hearty God-speed to home. rule in ireland.
A freight train on the Fitchburg railroad
became derailed near Charlestown, Mass, ,on
the Sth and ran into switch house where
four men were sleeping. All of the men
were injured. Lawrence O'Brien was
crushed so that he will probably die. The
others are badly hurt but will recover.
A ten-pound can of powder exploded in
the house occupied by John Sippa, Polish
miner, at Connellsville, Pa, on the Sth,
painfully burning Mrs. Sippa and her two
year-old child and badly damaging the
house. The powder was ignited by the
child, who was playing around the stove
with stick.
At convention of the prominent peach
growers OF Warren and Hunterdon counties,
N. j., just held, it was generally admitted
that the outlook favored an unusually large
crop Of fruit, especially peaches. Some
were Of the opinion that the crop Of the
coming season would be the heaviest known
for years.
Immigrants to the number Of ,273 landed
on the Sth at Castle Garden, the largest
number in one day at this season of the
year since Castle Garden was first used as
a reception place for immigrants.
Several buildings on the principal street
Of Addison, N. Y, were burned on the Sth,
entailing loss of between 10000 and
$4,000 g. J. Jennings, dry goods, loses
$17,5OO
Business failures occurring throughout
the country during the seven days ended
April number for the United States 1873,
Canada 25, or a total of 223, being the same
number as reported the previous week.
The coal miners throughout the country
are discussing proposition for the forma-
ton Of one gigantic organization by the
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Miners and the Miners National Assembly
of Knights Of Labor.
BY the fire which partially destroyed the
tenement house on Essex street, New York,
on the 7th, two hundred residents were
rendered homeless, thirteen of whom are
in the hospital from serious burns received.
Some Of the injured will probably die.
Had there not been fire escapes at the front
and rear of the building the loss of life
would have been appalling.
WEST AND SOUTH.
Nash Harper, negro living near
Mechanicsburg, O., beat his twelve-year-
old child so .brutally on the 5th that she died
in two hours. He placed her body in box
and was about to bury her, when he was
discovered by neighbors. Harper fed and
has not been captured.
The Northern Pacific elevator at Buffalo,
forty miles west Of Fargo, D. T., containing
40, 0O0 bushels OF wheat, burned a few days
ago. The building was valued at $40, 900 and
the wheat at $25, 900; fully insured.
Dispatches of the 5th from Marquette
Houghton, Escanaba, Chippewa Falls and
other points in northern Michigan and Wis
consin report one of the worst billiards. Of
the season. The snow was foot deep and
buO Ioi1IOcsuo WOfC u1OChooOu.
The city of Ellsworth, Kan, has offered
as donation $40 acres of land within two
miles of the city, and 10000 forest trees te
be planted thereon, to the department Of
Kansas G. A. R., and those who follow in
their footsteps, for State reunion purposes
At Savannah, /. T., on the 5th terrible
explosion occurred in shaft No. 2, by which
six miners were killed. A rescuing party
was organized and sent down into the
mine, but they were overpowered by gas
and twelve were suffocated before they
could be taken out, making eighteen dead
in all. The victims are principally Italians
A dispatch from Portland, Ore, says the
steamer Spokane, with twenty four passen
gers, capsized in the Coeur d'Alene river
on the 5th. Five men are reported lost, as
follows: Colonel Higgins, of Bangor, Me.
L. Pike, of Portland, Ore. j. C. Hanna, Of
Spokane Falls; Mr.. Jerome, of Lewiston
and one deckhand.
Two well-dressed young men induced
John Workman, a farmer living neal
Springfield, ILL.,, to show them over his farm
on the 9Th, claiming they wished to buy it
In lonely spot they overpowered ano
robbed him of 90, 600 with which he was
going to buy cattle that day. The thieves
escaped.
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Congress from the Third district of South
Carolina, died at his home in Cokesbury
3. c., on the 9th. He had served in Con
gress for FIVE successive terms.
A dispatch was received at San Francisco
on the 9th stating that the bark Eldorado
Captain Humphrey, from Seattle for Sar
Francisco with q cargo of coal, had foun
dered off Cape Flattery and all but two Of
the crew of twelve were lost.
The gauge of the Dayton & Ironton rail
road was changed from narrow to standard
few days ago. The $50 miles of rail were
laid by 200 men between sunrise and sun
set.
Henry Busdecker convicted of the muir
der of his roommate, Henry Sander, at To
ledo, O., last October, has been sentenced
to ten years. Imprisonment in the peniten
tiary.
At Hagerstown, Md, the proprietor o
Hayes bookstore, having lost portion o
his stock almost nightly, lay in wait for th'
thief on the night of the 9th and shot hin
dead. He proved to be an employe Of th
Globe printing Office.
The ceremonies incident to the unveilin,
of the statue of General Albert Sidne
Johnston, Of the Confederate army, tool
place at New Orleans on the 9th in the pres
ence Of ten thousand people. The veteran
associations, including Grand Army posts
attended in a body. Many distinguishe
participants on both sides of the civil wa
were present. Jefferson Davis Delivers
an address eulogizing Johnston. Poems b.
Mrs. Mary A. Townsend, of New Orleans
and Mrs. Kate B. Sherwood, of Toledo, o.
were read. President Cleveland sent
letter of regret.
Reports from every county in Indiana
Illinois and Ohio show that the average @
wheat in Indiana and Illinois is SO per cent
and in Ohio 9S per cent. The condition 9
| wheat in Indiana and Illinois is S4, and i
| Ohio IS.
The hosting works of the Nevada Quee
| mine at Tuscarora, New, were completed
destroyed on the 7th by the explosion of
box of giant powder, which had been place
near the boiler to thaw. The boiler ais
exploded. Five men were seriously il
jured, among them A. D.Russell, forema
of the mine, who is believed to be fatal
| hurt.
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